Up She Cried

So I had no alarm clock set today, as it is the weekend, and I still got up, stripped my bed etc 15 minutes before my alarm clock goes off on a normal morning

Paralympics

Lord, watching the intro to the Paralympics and it so occurs to me, I am an exwheelchair user

Gymwards

Then I got stuck into going to a proper gym clasd. Kind of neing able to do some and not others but I did a load. I wasn't too inappropriate with Sam, just because she was busy with other clients

S'morning'

Well s'morning I asked MM to chop my onion and mushroom then got stuck into cleaning under a running tap then peeling and chopping the rest of the veg and I made it into a potentially delicious* big pan of food with a tin of tomatoes and some lentils, garlic and spices. So I nearly did this all by myself

* Say potentially, I haven't actually tasted it yet but it looks nice

Ignoring Ads

So I am watching a C4 program on the iPlayer and there was 3 or 4 minutes of ads in the middle and there was no way of switching them off.

Very unsettling

Rather Strange But Strangely Entertaining

Well I have just listened to the first installment of Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy new series which was strange but entertaining, much like the other stuff I have heard/read

Busy Thursday Morning

So first of all we had to go to The Warren (Just called Th.....ren in this pic) unusually to pick up my veg and there was no parking anywhere by there but we parked on the main street about 5 yds away so it was dead close. We did that then MM had to push my trolley around Morrison's for me but again we did it, got everything on the list

Then after we had come home and put stuff away etc we headed back to the gym where I was only able to use 3 "leg only" machines but I did it

Hanging Out Again

And I hung the washing out to dry again. So 4 days ago I didn't feel able to, then 2 days ago I did and it is just force of habit now.

Very strange

Off Out For Dinner

And we did the washing up early today because me and GGtGG are going out for dinner with the Carmarthen Making Friends group

And wasn't that fun, a good time was had

Denyse

Then Denyse came over "because she's supposed to" to just check up on me and how I am coping with my splint etc. It all went well until she said "Is there anything you want to ask me?" and even tho I didn't ask her this time she could tell that I was frantically trying to think of something other than "Marry me"

Shopping

So we headed into town first thing and went round and round until we found a free parking space. From there it was miles to Savers where we had to go, but it just isn't an issue, any more. Distance to walk is not as much of an issue as it was a few months ago

Randomly Better

Today, for the first time since last week I was able to hold my toothbrush in my right hand and squirt 'paste with my left hand. I haven't been able to use both hands for a week, I had to lie my toothbrush down in the sink and use one hand to squirt

Hectic Day

So first thing today that Denyse is coming to see me, then I have gotta head to a gym class then we are popping out to a restaurant near where we first lived in Wales for a 'making friends' group dinner

Tomorrow

And we are going out for dinner tomorrow night with the Carmarthen Meet Folk Society or somesuch

Theraputic

And as it hurts to lean on anything with my right hand it means that when I go to stand up I am holding my walky stick in my left hand and I have got to just stand up using my legs alone. So even this is thera-fsckin'-putic

Bicycling

So s'morning we headed to gym and I got on the bike. I had said "No" to that loads of times as it feels really strange a)if I don't lean my right hand on the handlebars I feel really unbalanced/unstraight, and b)if I do lean my right hand on it makes the wrist feel all unstraight etc, but I got stuck in and tried it.

I was due to do 10km but I finished after half an hour cycling, about 6 and a bit km as my right foot was feeling a bit odd

Sleeping

And I find that I am sleeping less than normal ATM because my right hand is irritated by being in a plaster. It doesn't hurt loads but I am aware of it....

Half Way Through

And I have reached half way thru the keeping my arm in a plaster period, I am due back at t'hospital in a week

Memory

So I went to gym today with a pair of trousers on which didn't need a belt. But as I was leaving I headed into my bedroom and put my belt in my pocket. When I got to gym I put tgeelt on and clipped the FeS device on it and took off the bumbag it had been attached to.

Just the fact that I remembered to take it with me.....

Class

So as I can't swim ATM and if I am doing exercises I will say "Can't do that" loads we have decided to head back to Sam's class at 2pm so I will need to have an early lunch in a minute......

Aargh, it wasn't Sam, it was some chappy and it was strange only being able to use 1 arm but I did what I could

Warmer, Later

And a few days ago it would have been -3 by this time

Out

And as Timmy was very pleased that we would actually be able to leave the house now he said "Shall we eat at Wetherspoons tonight?" which didn't take much persuasion

And the veggie burger and chips was a bit delicious. And the pudding too, which meant I got a bit drunk but......

Changeable

So the weather has changed a bit. So now the sun is shining from a 75% cloudless sky. And I need to have a bath&nap. Bet the weather will have changed again by the time I get up

And in the bath today I was able to open the window instead of switching on the noisy extractor fan for the first time in 3 days. The scary eastern weather has been replaced with wind from the south 

Ice Going

There are just a few bits on the roof and at the side of the path, most ice has gone away s'morning, it's raining now

Not Freezing

And my watch says it is 2°C outside now at 11 o'clock at night which is about 5° warmer than it has been at night for a number of night's now

Trapped In

And I am well grumpy about being "trapped" indoors here tonight, not being able to go to the pub which I only do every couple of weeks. As I couldn't go there, or anywhere else, last night or tonight g*d help anyone that makes me shout.....

Watching

And I sat down in the kitchen today & turned on the iPad and looked what was on. So I found myself watching an episode of Wallace & Gromit which was rather entertaining

Duh

And the interweb wasn't working, I switched off my PC and went back to it half an hour later, still wasn't working, so a shout of "Timmy" came out, he said "Ah, reset the router" (which hadn't occured to me) and 5 minutes later all is working again

???

So why are they selling this this week?

Trouble Yesterday

And I did today's and Thursdays straight away but I had to have loadsa go's on yesterday's so I am missing the stars

Grumpy

And tonight I am feeling so shit because we can't go to the pub. Some weekends I don't go at all but because I can't tonight it is making me want to more than usual

Hiding

And we had a conference earlier and decided to listen to the advice on the radio and stay at home s'afternoon, not try and head to the gym class

Even tho I am missing Sam dunno if she was gonna make it in today.....

LimbO

So I found yesterday with my new cover your splint product that I could fit it myself, I didn't have to call a MOS into the bathroom and say "HELP" like I had to when using a bin-bag

Slingless

So I find that as I am not wearing my sling I can carry light goods and walk at the same time, which makes me feel a lot less disabled

Like carrying the towels back into the bathroom after I got dried/dressed. Summat I haven't been able to do for days...

The Wedding

Yesterday I printed out a copy on narrow paper, in big print etc of the piece I am reading at Sam's wedding in April. I have read it out each day as a practice as I will every day now, to practice and make it sink further into my head.

And I said to Timmy about trying on my suit etc and he said "Yes, but you only bought that when you were going back for your Mum's funeral, and you haven't lost too much weight since" and did say there is a sewing mender in Carmarthen if it needs changing

Fed Up

So I haven't put my right arm in the sling at all today and it is much less disabling like that. I can use my right hand some.

But I am still well fed up with it, I just wanna be better. Gonna be nearly another fortnight before I go back to the hospital and hopefully they will be able to give me my arm back

Gymless

And we didn't go to gym s'afternoon because I was due to do one of the machines that I can't use ATM and as we had struggled to find machines I could use t'other day "we" decided not to go

It is Sam's class tomorrow, if the snow holds off

As Warm As A Very.....

Warm Thing?

Well I was a bit nervous as we headed off to Iechyd Da to pick up the veg, thinking "There is gonna be snow somewhere?" but we didn't see any. I didn't walk down to Iechyd Da as it is slippery and icy on the way there but apart from that it was a normal day. But next week we will have to make different arrangements

But at 10 past 10 tonight it had snowed to about 1cm depth out the front. Which is bugger all compared with the world around us but it loads locally

Bin Bagless

So today I managed to have a bath without the bin bag over my cast as today the postman brought me a Limbo waterproof protector which doesn't actually need elastic bands, you just fit it on and it is tight enuf. Perhaps I am being too cynical but "We will see how long it lasts" but it is good so far

Really Hot

Lord, but they think it is well warm tonight

Busy Evening

So then tonight after someone cooks for us we need to pop out and go somewhere obscure and buy another battery for my remote control then we are going shopping in Morrison's a day early as it is due to snow tomorrow

Sigh Class

So s'afternoon we are heading down to gym to go in someones class at 2pm, it is the equivalent of Sam's class. As I can't swim.......

Well it went OK. There was many exercises I couldn't do but I just went on to the next

Unattached

And today I am experimenting with not wearing my sling thingy, just leaving my right arm out and about. I do prefer it, just being able to reach stuff with my right hand even if I can't grip very tightly helps loads

Sigh

Well Roy ordered one of these for me today......

More Shopping

Then we had to pop to an unusual department store in town as the press lights thing in the bedroom had stopped working and we had to replace the lamp bit. Which is all fixed now. It had come apart when fell down some months ago and finally died today

Toasty&Warm S'Afternoon

Gosh, it is so warm s'afternoon, under the sunshine

And....

And on the way back from the hospital Roy called into the supermarket to fetch some long life milk etc so it the snow does fall my staff will have food and drink

Check Up

So s'morning me and Roy had to head to the hospital for my follow up appointment about my broken hand. They examined me, checked with a consultant, and basically said there was nowt that they needed to do, just keep it in a splint for another fortnight then they will hopefully take it off. He said that it doesn't need to be in a plaster but as he suspects that I will hit it and cause much pain and discomfort that I'd better keep it on for now.

Toasty&Warm

So warm tonight

Bathing

And after my bath I was able to put the bag up to drain by myself, so we will be able to use it again tomorrow

Headwaying

So after lunch we headed to Headway in Swansea. I was a bit negative about going, I thought I wouldn't be able to function with only one hand but I did, it was fine. But I lost both the games I played with the others

Ferrules

So we popped out s'morning, first of all to petrol station at Morrison's to get petrol, then into Morrison's for MM to buy some bog roll for them then down to Cantre Mobility by the railway station to get some ferrules for the end of my walking stick. As they sell them in packets of two we have a spare in the drawer

Again

And I actually did that getting in the bath thing again today. Dunno why I felt the need to but I did

Cooking For Me

And RoyGBiv had to bake spuds and heat left overs for dinner tonight. And do the washing up, wiping around etc.

Grumble, grumble

Swelling

And my right hand is a bit swollen up s'morning

And it fecking hurts this evening.....

Dinner Time

So I had told Roy how to make the weeks food s'morning then watched him scrub some spuds and stick them into bake for dinner. The food came, the weeks food WAS delicious, I finished that then turned to the baked spud. They really are an eat it with both hands thing, it was very difficult with just my left hand

Bathing

And Roy looked at the plaster on my arm and said "Lets cover that with a bin bag so you can have a bath instead of washing your bits in the sink" and he then stuck a bin bag over the plaster with 2 elastic bands keeping it in place and I had a bath then. I even managed to wash my left armpit with my left hand but I feel much cleaner than before

Out Shopping

And we popped out s'afternoon to get some obscure electrical goods , a bulb which was adjustable so I can plug it in my bedside adjustable light and a battery for the same. So we headed down out of town center past the railway station to the obscure department stores and had to call in 2 to get both

Cooking S'Morning

So I wanted to make the weeks food today. I had to look at the containers and say "RoyTheBoy"........

Dinner With Timmy

So tonight I had to give Timmy some food as he was cooking it. It was lovely the na'an bread pizza which he had put the veg on before the cheese, it makes a subtly different, not as falling apart meal which we both enjoyed

Disgruntled

And I am feeling a bit piss*d off with life ATM, while I sit here with one arm in a splint and a sling..... I struggle to pull my trousers up etc, life has suddenly got too hard

Hooray Class

So I am going to head to my 2 o'clock class today and I am a bit puzzled about what exactly I will be able to do. But I will ask (That Beautiful) Sam whether I should show up for a more beginners class for all of next week as I will probably be in classes rather than swimming pool or exercise session eg

And she said "No, keep coming here" so I think I will be showing up 3 times a week as I can't do f all else. But the class was strange, much of it was walk about and do this with your arms so I just walked, but gotta keep this fitness up

So Iechyd Da tonight

For the Folk Club but I expect that I am not drinking any beer until I am a bit more stable etc

SHIT

No, I got there, sat down and had an orange juice and soda but then later I had some glasses of red wine. It was fine, I didn't misbehave or fall over or anything, I just had some red wine, not loads. But a good time was had

Fark

And my hand hurt some when I woke up s'morning but pulling my trousers back up after my pooh was a challenge

Double fark. Just been shopping in Morrison's, Timmy had to push the trolley, hold my shopping list, take goods off shelf, all he didn't do was pay, he had to do all the farking rest, then carry the goods back to the car and indoors from there

Triple fark. And my tongue has been hurting for a bit so I said to Timmy s'morning "Am I getting ulcers or what?" and showed it to him and he said "No, did you bite it when you fell"

Oh What Fun

Then after lunch I went out the back door to get the small bin things, I was stepping back in and I fell backwards off the step and had to be rescued by GGtGG. So I am currently sitting in hospital waiting to be seem and my right hand is a bit fscked

No apparently I have broken it. Hoo-fscking-fay

What fun. I can't tie my shoelaces, can barely pull my up trousers and zip up, can't look at my mobile phone unless I am by a desk, can't carry anything.....

But Good News

And GGtGG has just come in and said he called at gym on the way here and found out that there is no Aqua Fit class happening today, as it's half term

Woops

And I woke up s'morning and I had pissed in my bed. I wasn't even that drunk, I just had 2 glasses of wine last night

But it has put me in a bad mood, did-fscking-satisfied, grumpy now

Busy Day

So at lunchtime we are going into town to meet up with That Ruth who used to be my friend and neighbor when we lived in Mynydd Cerrig many moons ago.

Then after bath/nap/food etc we are going into the bowling center just near the gym to have an evening of not bowling but socializing with West Wales Everything Group as a kind of "make friends" night

Well wasn't that good. So we headed into town and parked hundreds of yards away from the café but that is no longer an issue, we just walked along and got there. There we met Ruth and, oh, what can I say?  We had an excellent chat and a delicious bean burger and salad lunch which was so nice I felt the need to walk back up to the counter and praise them

Then l8r we popped out to a "Making Friends" bowling match and stayed there for 2 or 3 hours and it was pleasant, a good group of folk, although I didn't play bowling

Stickless Walkies

So s'morning I walked from the computer into the kitchen with my walking stick held up off the ground. Yes, I could do it, no holding onto wall when I passed etc but it took fscking ages. About 3-4 times longer than a walk with stick trip

Double Figures

It was relatively toasty and warm today, in double figures for the first time in ages

Nearly Walk Off Without My 'Stick

I am so close to just walking off without my walking stick but "Be Careful" keeps eating my head and telling me not to. But I can walk a long way without it already

Samless

So as there was no swimming I went to the 2pm gym class and it wasn't taken by The Beautiful Sam. There was some chap in charge. But today on the standy up trampette I was actually able to stand on my right foot and lift my left foot 6 or 8 inches up, this was big progress from last time

And while cooking dinner in the kitchen tonight I was able to repeat the trick

Grumpyness

And I am struggling with just being in a bad mood because of my circumstances. I am fscking sick of recuperating, I just want to be properly well. I want my life (and my wife) back.

"No, some carer will drive you to the gym then rub cream on your legs and chest after u have your bath"

Oh, and I am fscking sick of the additives to enable me to use the bath and the loo

Disapointed

So after thoughts s'morning I said "We need to go to the Drs again to collect another script". I am disappointed 'cos I thought we would walk in, the usual receptionist would be there, who saw me in last week, I would say "Now, why am I here again? Did I forget summat off my list or did I just feel the need to come in and see you again?". But the usual receptionist wasn't there today

Fark

And GGtGG on his way to work thought "Ah, half term, I'd better check" and called into gym and yes the class has changed the time to an unsuitable one and if we had showed up I wouldn't be wearing my FES so I wouldn't be able to do an exercise session.

Arse, arse, arse. So instead we are popping into Sam's 2pm class

Can't he just "Mind his own business"

Failure

I have got 2 days out of this month that I can't do

Shall We Go Out.....

.....MagicMark said to me s'morning. "No, day of rest" I replied

Dunno, we might do summat later but for now, no

BIG SIGH So I had lunch half an hour ago and feel a bit livelier so go out soon? NO, I need my fscking nap

And we couldn't go out after nap as I was cooking baked spuds for tea which involves
about an hour and a half in the oven. It was edible with some of Neils veggie stuff which
I cooked t'other night

Grumpy

And I have been a bit of a miserable sh*t again today, I am just sick of not being able to...... "run for the bus" or drive and sick of having cream rubbed into my chest and fecking feet every day

I know, I am not supposed to be grumpy as I was so much iller in the past but that doesn't help. I am still a bit...... loads.....

Got It

And my new t-shirt arrived today, I had decided it wasn't too dear in the end

But it was a bit pricey......

Computer Crisis

And I am having a crisis today. My external hard drive which contains most relevant stuff has died. I couldn't have a close look s'morning as we were out walking and since then I have been cooking. After nap I will have another look

No, can't do f. all. I have had to dig out backups etc

Walkies

So we headed to town s'morning and parked on King St and just went for a walk along including stops at 3 charity shops where I didn't find owt to buy

Friday

So after an early lunch we headed to the Drs to get my script. Except I had forgotten to order one of the main items so we will have to go back on Monday or Tuesday and pay for fscking parking again. We had half an hour before gym class so we pooped into the gallery at the end of King St and had a look. This involves a scary staircase but that was no prob. I just climbed.

Then we popped to gym which was much the same as usual, except today we were doing an exercise with both feet taking turns to be backwards and for the second half of the exercise I managed to do it with my right foot staying flat on the floor, my ankle wasn't insisting it lifted 

More Grumpyness

After being grumpy yesterday today I am being p*ssed off with having to wipe my arse (after a poo) with my left hand

It is just wrong/It doesn't work properly/It is too hard

Hooray, It's Friday

So after my early lunch then we have to pop to the Drs to pick up my 'script (As Timmy will be "having a meeting" with GGtGG when he comes in) then there is my weekly class @ gym with Sam

Sigh

Well I said it was too dear t'other day but in the end I bought it anyway.

So they emailed me today to say "It's on the way"

Grumpyness

I am struggling a bit with just feeling sick of being as fscked as I am now. Yes, I was more fscked in the past but I still struggle with being this fscked now. I had an enormous life changing accident which wasn't my fault and did change my life. I used to be a lazy(ish) do nothing chap. That has changed. Because it is a struggle to get out of my bed in the fscking morning. It is a struggle to walk to the loo, to the kitchen etc.

And I need to have someone else rub my cream in every day etc. Et-fscking-cetera

AND I "have to have" someone supervise me cooking and eating....

Gymwards

Well we popped to gym, got a bit confused about what I had said to Timmy but we got there in the end so I sat down and did my 3 and a bit KM rowing exercise. At one point I had to turn my hands upside down as it didn't hurt my right hand like normal rowing does, so apparently it is making other muscles work but I did it.

Finished the distance

Walkies

So s'morning we went to Iechyd Da to pick up the organic veg then to Morrison's to do the rest.

All dun, so now..... gymwards

In't Pub

So we came out, there were some people here but they have gone now, leaving some folk in the other side, eating

Unexpected

And when we were on the way out today we saw the ex-landlady as she was down at the house next door. She commented the last time she saw me I was in a wheelchair and was also much fatter (Slim Jim she called me)

Frozen Food

And because we had run out of "Neil's food" we had to have frozen mini pizza's(1) and oven chips for dinner tonight. It was pleasant but I think it is about 3 weeks since we had anything to eat apart from na'an bread pizza (once a week) or "Neil's food" that I had made an enormous pot of and frozen loads the rest of the week

(1) With extra garlic and cheese

Hoo-fscking-ray

And it is an early lunch today followed by Aqua Aerobics at the fscking pool

Hooray

Well wasn't it...... Well that went OK. For the first time ever I didn't have to hold on to the side for any of the exercises, I did them all on my own two (and one periodically) feet

Getting Light Again

And s'morning my alarm clock went off and I sat up and put my shoes on etc and, for the first time in some months, didn't need to switch the light on to see, it was bright enuf

Different Format

And if I look at the test which tool you are using to look at this webpage on my iPad which I mainly use for watching telly it comes up as a mobile phone device

Feed Me

So I am heating up for dinner the last of "this weeks food" which actually means I will have to take summat out of the freezer tomorrow as I don't get the organic veg 'til Thursday.

It has lasted all week before, dunno if we have had bigger portions or I have lost some or what this week

For Miles

So s'morning RoyGBiv took me to gym and it was a cycle for miles session. (OK, 10km)

Oh what fun we had. About ⅔ of the way thru ATM

Finished. {Pant, pant, pant}

Take 'Em Down

And I have just had to go outside and take down(1) my two "hanging, blowing in the wind" ornaments as it is getting so windy

(1) OK, or ask MM to help, he is tall enuf to reach

Headway Update

And we went to Headway and had a good time. We were sat with a women who remembers me from before and a newbie chap who had a car crash 5 years ago and is trying to get over it. We only had time, amongst conversations etc, for one game but I won it!!!!

Headway Today

So we are off to a meeting of Headway Swansea instead of going swimming today which I don't know how to react to. Yes, not going swimming is excellent but going to a meeting...... "Why am I here?" springs to mind.

THEN there is a Carmarthen Headway meeting tonight to sort out next years activities, dunno what I can offer....

No, after discussion with MM we decided to not go to tonight's.  They email me notifications about "do's"

After Breakfast Time

So an hour after I got up s'morning it was still cold